Pant scripts aplenty with century
While Pant played a worthy knock of 101, in an exciting observation, ever since his Test debut in 2018, he has scored the most Test centuries by a wicketkeeper-batsman in the format. Besides being his maiden Test ton at home, it was his third overall, while next to him is Quinton de Kock, BJ Watling and a couple of Asian keepers with two. He has now scored the joint-second most centuries by Indian keeper, along with Wriddhiman Saha, while Dhoni is ahead with six tons. Pant is now the second-highest run-scorer in the format for the year, having scored 515, while Joe Root is ahead with 764. He is also the joint-second Indian to score a Test century off a six, along with Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma, on a couple of occasions, while the record for the same is with Sachin Tendulkar (6). Interestingly, he has also become the first player to play a reverse sweep of seamer James Anderson since 2014.
Pant scripts aplenty with century
While Pant played a worthy knock of 101, in an exciting observation, ever since his Test debut in 2018, he has scored the most Test centuries by a wicketkeeper-batsman in the format. Besides being his maiden Test ton at home, it was his third overall, while next to him is Quinton de Kock, BJ Watling and a couple of Asian keepers with two. He has now scored the joint-second most centuries by Indian keeper, along with Wriddhiman Saha, while Dhoni is ahead with six tons. Pant is now the second-highest run-scorer in the format for the year, having scored 515, while Joe Root is ahead with 764. He is also the joint-second Indian to score a Test century off a six, along with Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma, on a couple of occasions, while the record for the same is with Sachin Tendulkar (6). Interestingly, he has also become the first player to play a reverse sweep of seamer James Anderson since 2014.